Fairness for Carers: Reform the Carer Allowance Process - Sign the Petition! https://chng.it/SLBDwdgB via @UKChange
#petition #carerspay #carers

More family carers set to qualify for the state pension from 2024

#SocialWelfare #Carers

https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/90d8b-changes-to-the-state-pension-contributory-what-you-need-to-know/

My daughter got life-threatening cancer and I lost my job as a result | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/cancer-leukaemia-parents-employment-rights-b2402417.html

#Carers
#Cancer
#WorkersRights
#CarersRights
#SickKids
#FlexibleWorking
#CareerBreak

After a year, with nothing, we finally have a new home care agency for my disabled daughter, but it’s not working out too well. I got up extra early today to get ready for her to have a shower, and no one showed up. The agency keep sending new carers so I spend the hour training them in instead of getting a chance to do other things. And my daughter is anxious about all the changes.
🤷‍♀️😞

#disability #carers

Families caring for dementia patients in UK reaching crisis point, says charity | Dementia | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/31/families-caring-for-dementia-patients-in-uk-reaching-crisis-point-says-charity

#Dementia
#UK
#DementiaCare
#DementiaUK
#Carers

Coming up: Memory Cafe - A twice monthly memory cafe for those living with #dementia and their #carers.
https://bitternepark.info/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=5116&Itemid=100297&year=2023&month=07&day=26&title=memory-cafe-bitterne-park&uid=29c0f0c6aa5ba4839d84a263a6a83add
#bitternepark #Southampton #localnews

Read the latest story on my author website's blog...

Former scientist Dr Carol Sargent wants to persuade tourism and hospitality firms to recognise the value of catering to people who live with dementia.

https://tykewriter.wordpress.com/2023/07/14/dementia-never-takes-a-holiday-so-why-shouldnt-you/

#dementia #ageing #elderly #carers #society #tourism #hospitality

In other non apocalyptic news, #Lavender season is here in the UK. Took our mum to Carshalton Fields. She rocked the place in her Jams, bless her.
Highly recommended for those looking for a change of scene. Especially #carers.

#dementia #carers

Off to Phoenix Arts Centre today to meet up with other parents of severely disabled young adults and, together, discuss (as so many times before) exactly how we hold the local authority to account when it comes to Adult Social Care.
Also to laugh, gossip and drink coffee.
#Carers
#LeicestershireSNTransitionsGroup

Care crisis: Why migrant labour and AI won’t solve our problems | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/emily-kenway-care-crisis-failing-bots-migrant-labour-work/

#CareCrisis
#CheapLabour
#AI
#Carers
#Disability
#UnpaidCarers
#Migrants
#MigrantWorkers

A plan to cut #carers when the #NHS is on its knees – do ‘red wall’ #Tory MPs really think this will save them?

The #UK’s #CareSector needs workers from abroad, but rightwing MPs want to slash #immigration to save face – whatever the cost [to others]
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/03/cutting-carers-nhs-new-conservatives #NHSEngland

Update on the #Curae Prize from @Bookwormvaught - it will be a bi-annual prize, hopefully opening again in Jan 2025
#bookstodon #writing #carers @bookstodon https://thecuraeprize.uk/2023/07/02/statement-on-the-curae-prize/

Here's an eminently sensible six-point plan to 'fix' the #NHS from a consultant #doctor:

1. Clarify GP's role & links with #socialcare (with GPs driving change, not top down 'reform')

2. New (ambitious) national standards

3. Transform the respect accorded to #carers

4. Improve preventative #healthcare

5. Establish an effective #obesity strategy

6. Sort out #mentalhealth services.

Just stating the 6 points shows the damage a decade of #Tory defunding has wrought!
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/30/what-next-for-the-nhs-six-ways-to-secure-its-future

I was offered a contract by age care providers Hall & Prior as a part of a take over of our facility. I told their three representatives that they could shove their contract and I didn’t know how they could sit there and argue their case for what I believed was screwing carers

#AgedCare #Carer #Carers #HallAndPrior #Capitalism #Greed #WageTheftIsTheft #WageTheft

Today carers receive an increase in their pay rate. I also see the worst in corporate greed. A commercial aged care company downgrades what it considers a carer does by arguing the tasks being performed constitute a small part of the carers duties only

Leaves carers $0.97/h worse off. I hate capitalism and the people who prostitute it’s warped morals. The residents are the ones who will suffer

#AgedCare #Carer #Carers #HallAndPrior #Capitalism #Greed

My latest occasional post on Medium...

https://markcantrell.medium.com/unpaid-carers-are-worth-a-fortune-to-the-public-purse-they-pay-a-crushing-price-c69d14a8a382

#society #SocialCare #carers #economy

RT @AddressingLife: While I definitely agree with Dan, I've long said there shouldn't even be "young carers" meaning there should be enough proper supports within the home for the disabled person that the children in the house aren't expected to do ANY care work. (I hope that makes sense). #carers https://t.co/Zx0983oSLR

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lukeming/status/1666738025735282689

How out of touch is Philip Lowe, RBA governor, “If people can cut back spending, or in some cases find additional hours of work, that would put them back into a positive cash flow position”

I’m working with carers for whom working two jobs with long hours has become a way of life, that’s servitude

The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/07/rba-governor-philip-lowe-australia-interest-rates

#Carers #RBA #Economy #TheGuardian #Work #Servitude

I'm going to embarrass the hell out of my other half now 😄 wrote this personal piece for @NationalWorld. Thanks to Carers UK for speaking to me.

A love letter to the UK's 5 million invisible caregivers on #CarersWeek - including my partner

#carer #carers #NHS #health

https://www.nationalworld.com/opinion/national-carers-week-love-letter-to-uks-5-million-invisible-caregivers-including-my-partner-4171339

About helpful things... https://open.substack.com/pub/paulbackhouse/p/helpful-things

#Carersweek #caring #carers